My one (British) friend was saying that everyone's been telling him to see "The King's Speech", and then he started saying it's funny how people have misconceptions about other countries because of the portrayal in movies, and how he's met Americans who think that all British people live in manor houses.
"Really?", I was like, "Because I think of England as a post-industrial dystopia where people live in small rundown houses wedged together on dingy streets and are trapped in low-wage jobs for which the rest of society looks down on them mercilessly."
"Exactly!", he was like, "That's the England I love."
He was also saying that his biggest misconception about America when he 1st came here was that everyone drove fast, which he assumed happened from all the car chases on television.
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